ABSTRACT
Recently completed pavilions serve as vehicles for examining contemporary modes of production, combining analog, digital, and robotic fabrication processes. Error, glitch, and imperfection; these three interrelated terms denoting loss of control, paradoxically represent opportunities for regaining control of intuition, serendipity, and discovery in the over-determined milieu surrounding digital fabrication and contemporary computational culture. This chapter focuses upon questions regarding the value of imperfection in design, value inherent in contingencies of matter, geometry, and the purposeful calibration of form, encountering the forces and feedback systems that rapidly transform the 'ideal', into the sublime beauty of the 'real'. The control of form through direct, bodily control of mark-making (or tool use) may be illustrated in the Gestural exercises derived from the 'Swiss' school of graphic design, inspired by the teachings of Peter Olpe. In writing computer code, error checking is a commonplace aspect of software development, embedded in syntax checking and auto-formatting tools.
